ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,521, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Weather station for sensor calibration" was invented by Luca Castellotto (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to sensor calibration and more specifically, to sensor calibration using weather data. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a process for receiving a set of weather data from a weather measurement station disposed within a calibration environment, determining if a predetermined weather condition is indicated by the set of weather data, and collecting, using one or more AV sensors, ...